A.P. Hale
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 8812. Lance Corporal. 1 Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Reported March 21. Taken prisoner on October 30. Called May 12 out. At Gustrow, Mecklenburg. No news since January. Approached Red Cross, Geneva. Word received June. Had written regularly but no letters received by him or his mother. Address for letters:- Gustrow in Mecklenburg, Arbeitslager, Suderzollhaus, Schleswig. Send parcels to Suderzollhaus. December 14 Arbeitslager, Wohlde, Schleswig. Reported May 9. A.C.C. (Army Cyclists Corps) sends parcels regularly. November 1916 Besdorf Post Wacken, Schleswig, Gustrow in Mecklenburg, Germany. November 1917 Via Gustrow in Mecklenburg. December home.' (Extract from handwritten notes by The Reverend Robert Daniel Kermode, Vicar of St George's Church, Douglas, about men from his parish serving in the First World War. MS 10003/7)
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